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Karat on fire-fighting mission to Kerala

The Independence Day weekend will see CPM general secretary Prakash Karat mitigating the never-ending crisis in the Kerala unit of the party.

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The Independence Day weekend will see CPM general secretary Prakash Karat mitigating the never-ending crisis in the Kerala unit of the party and in the state government.

Karat will be in Kerala for a three-day meeting from Sunday onwards to work some way for the state unit and the LDF government to co-exist. Factions owing allegiance to chief minister VS Achyutanandan and state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan have been loggerheads for sometime now.

After the crushing defeat in the general election, the CPM central committee realised that infighting in the Kerala unit was one of the reasons for the Left debacle.

Achyutanandan was even removed from the party’s politburo after he supported the state governor for allowing a CBI prosecution against Vijayan in the SNC Lavalin case.

“Things have not improved and seven out of 10 cabinet ministers in the state have revolted against the chief minister. During the last politburo meeting in Delhi, state finance minister Thomas Isaac had lodged a written protest to Karat against Achyutanandan,” a source in the CPM said. “Things are so bad that the chief minister has now started keeping files away from his colleagues,” the source said.

“The party will try and come up with fresh guidelines for the chief minister in this meeting,” he said. Senior CPM member S Ramachandra Pillai will accompany Karat to Tiruvananthapuram.

 Achyutanandan and Vijayan have fought many times over the past few years. From the issue of setting up a smart city at an info park in Kochi to demolitions in Munnar and now the SNC Lavalin case, the two have never got along.
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